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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I will hear what God the Lord will speak,.... This the psalmist says in the name of the people of the Jews, whom he represents, in all the foregoing expostulations and petitions, refusing to be still and quiet, and wait and listen for an answer to the above request from the Lord, who speaks by his providences, word, and Spirit; see Habakkuk 2:1,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: “I will be silent. I have spoken to him; now I will hear what his answer is. I will hold my ear attentive to listen to his voice.” O my dear hearers, when you are willing to hear God, there are good times coming to you! Psa_85:8. For he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: There is peace,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. For, if they do, their darkness will return, and they will again have to mourn their Lord’s absence. Peradventure, the rod will fall more heavily upon them, and their souls will sink into a deeper despondency....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him,.... That have a true sense of sin and folly, are humbled for it, hate it, and depart from it, and do not return unto it; have a reverential affection for God, a sense of his goodness, particularly his pardoning grace and mercy, and fear him on account of it, and to offend him; and that serve him...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; When you honour him, reverence him, worship him, his salvation cannot be far away from you.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; At the cross is their meeting-place. There, you shall see God’s mercy and God’s truth embracing each other over the great sacrifice of Christ. Mercy and truth seem set at variance in the sinner’s case till they are reconciled by the blood of Jesus.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. O beloved brethren and sisters, lay hold on that salvation which is nigh unto you, and exalt in it; and, even now, let your spirits feel the glow of his glory shining in your soul!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Mercy and truth are met together,.... Or "grace and truth" (p), which are in Christ, and come by him; and so may be said to meet in him, the glorious Person, the Author of salvation, before mentioned, John 1:14, these may be considered as perfections in God, displayed in salvation by Christ: "mercy" is the original of it; it is owing to that that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. It seemed impossible that God should be righteous and yet be at peace with sinners; but Christ has taken both parties by the hand, and at Calvary they kiss each other. God is as righteous as if he were not gracious, and as gracious as if he were not just. Yea, his justice and his peace are each of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Mercy and truth are met together; But only at one place,—the cross of Calvary, where Jesus died; there, “mercy and truth are met together;” Psa_85:10. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Through Christ’s death, sin has been punished, sinners are saved, God’s law is vindicated, and the depths of his mercy are displayed: “Righteousness...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Truth shall spring out of the earth,.... Either the Gospel, the word of truth, which sprung up at once in the land of Judea, as if it came out of the earth; and from Zion and Jerusalem it came forth into the Gentile world: or else the truth of grace God desires in the inward parts, and which springs up in such who are like cultivated earth, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Carpeted with truth, and canopied with righteousness; what a wonderful scene is before us! Truth is coming out of the ground, as though it had been a dead thing, which begins to live, and leaves its tomb; and righteousness is throwing up the windows of heaven, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Truth shall spring out of the earth;-- Promises, which lay hidden in God’s Word, like seeds buried in the earth, shall spring up before our eyes, like flowers carpeting the earth with beauty: “Truth shall spring out of the earth;”— Psa_85:11. And righteousness shall look down from heaven. As if so pleased with the state of things brought about by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good,.... Meaning not merely temporal good, as rain in particular, as some think, because of the following clause; but that which is spiritually good, his good Spirit and his grace, grace and glory: nor will he withhold any good thing from his people; every good and perfect gift comes from him: and our land...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. It is all well when it is well with us in our relation to God. When we are reconciled to him, then all things are reconciled by that fact.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps. May God thus revive us, by his Holy Spirit, for Christ’s sake! Amen.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Righteousness shall go before him,.... The incarnate Saviour, the increase of our land, and fruit of the virgin's womb; and righteousness may be put for a righteous person, as Aben Ezra interprets it; and may design John the Baptist, a holy and just man, Mr 6:20, who was the forerunner and harbinger of Christ, went before him, and prepared the way...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in. the way of his steps. Lord, hear the prayer of this Psalm, and answer it to us, for Jesus sake! Amen. This exposition consisted of readings from Isa_43:22-28; Isa_44:1-8; and Psalms 85